Has Rambus ever done anything in good faith? It really seems like they set out doing everything in bad faith with the ultimate intention of suing everyone.

It is obvious your reporter doesn't do his home work before reporting. How in the world could so many comments be so out of order, disregarding all of the legal decisions to date. Seems a payoff was part of the hit piece.

This little company Rambus needs to go the way of SCO and get torpedoed by the larger fish. It's an obnoxious menace which will only serve to increase prices.

so should we believe 3 juries and a well respected federal judge in San Jose or you? the judge and juries have no vested interest. if you say you do not either, I will say with confidence you are not being truthful

I think it's just a case of Rambus jumping in and laying a few kicks on NV when they're on the ground. A long, expensive lawsuit is the last thing NV needs right now, so I'll bet Rambus is hoping for a quick payoff to get them to go away.

Nvidia has been stealing (allegedly - LOL) Rambus IP for years and years. Congratulations to Rambus and its shareholders for demanding that IP Stealing Trolls pay.

Can anyone honestly say patents are doing good things in the tech industry?

There seems to be two major benefactors of patents (in general, not just software patents): pantent trolls and large corporations who use them to squeeze small competitors or hinder any from being formed in the first place.

Why are there only two actual players on the x86 market?

WHY is Rambus still in business? We all know that they usurped the DRAM memory standard before JDEC published it. Can't someone put this company out of business?? NVidia is already going to have to fall on it's sword in order to deal with the design flaw debacle of it's laptop GPU problem defective unit problem. That definitely decides my next graphics card purchase. It won't be anything from NVidia.

Egan,
You have it wrong. 

Rambus is the farthest thing from a troll, having invented the technologies now used in all DRAMs.

Rambus' founders conceived of the inventions in 1988, met under non-disclosure with DRAM, controller, and system companies in 1989 / 1990, and published 100+ pg detailed implementation guides in 1990. They did not join the memory standards body JEDEC until Dec 1991.

A jury in the US this year heard 6 weeks all these facts, including testimony from Rambus founders Farmwald and Horowitz, and from 1990's JEDEC President Rhoden, and took just 3 hours to reach the verdict that Rambus did nothing wrong.

Some more interesting facts that came out were that JEDEC leadership in the mid-1990's made the comment that 'we are so far behind we need to take technology from Rambus and make it our own', and the decisions in DDR2 and DDR3 standard setting since 2001 to continue including (stealing) Rambus technology - long after litigation underway.

Finally, the Nvidia suit includes patents issued in 2007, demonstrating the continuing innovation of the company - certainly not the definition of a troll.

But I invite you to do your own research - that means reading the original docs, not talking to DRAM execs - and republish afterward.

BTW, Nvidia is a US company, about 7 miles from Rambus.

Good health to you.

After this news, I am waiting for Charlie to continue his rant about how bad Nvidia is, and how much he hates Nvidia, etc. I am surprised he hasn't written anything yet, I thought he had an Nvidia detector!

Rambus got lucky enough to generate a basic patent. I'd be expecting more companies that build chips which interface with memory to be sued soon. I wouldn't disagree with what they are doing had they disclosed the patent pending during the standards creation process.